The Wombats have shared particulars of their forthcoming album, ‘Repair Your self, Not The World’, and a UK area tour alongside the discharge of a brand new single.
The Liverpool-formed band’s fifth album arrives on January 7, 2022 through AWAL. It’s previewed by ‘If You Ever Depart, I’m Coming With You’, a thumping new track that hears the group ponder the influence of the COVID pandemic on interpersonal relationships.
A six-date area tour for April 2022 will soak up exhibits at Cardiff and Glasgow amongst different places equivalent to an already introduced gig at London’s The O2 on April 15 – their greatest headline present so far.
‘Repair Your self, Not The World’ was recorded remotely throughout numerous coronavirus lockdowns (pre-order right here). It’s produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing However Thieves), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The Conflict on Medicine, Yungblud).
The three bandmembers had been by no means in the identical room in the course of the album course of. Matthew “Murph” Murphy is predicated in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen is in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis is in London.
Every day the band mentioned a every day plan through Zoom, recorded their elements individually and then despatched particular person recordsdata to their producers. “It was pure insanity, to be sincere,” Murphy stated in an announcement.
He added of the band’s new single: “I observed that 2020 and 2021 put some severe pressure on interpersonal relationships, it felt like folks round me had been actually struggling. For me, ‘If You Ever Depart, I’m Coming With You’ faucets into all of that and asks the query…is it the circumstances placing undue stress on folks? Or have the circumstances make clear folks’s incompatibility with each other?”
‘Repair Your self, Not The World’ observe listing:
01. ‘Flip Me Upside Down’
02. ‘This Automobile Drives All By Itself’
03. ‘If You Ever Depart, I’m Coming With You’
04. ‘Prepared For The Excessive’
05. ‘Technique To The Insanity’
06. ‘Folks Don’t Change Folks, Time Does’
07. ‘All the things I Love Is Going To Die’
08. ‘Work Is Simple, Life Is Arduous’
09. ‘Wildfire’
10. ‘Don’t Poke The Bear’
11. ‘Fear’
12. ‘Repair Your self, Then The World (Attain Past Your Fingers)’
Tickets for The Wombats’ upcoming tour go on sale this Friday (August 20) at 9am BST. Head right here.
The Wombats UK area tour 2022:
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14 – First Direct Area, Leeds
15 – The O2, London
16 – Motorpoint Area, Cardiff
18 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
22 – Mountford Corridor, Liverpool
26 – Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
The group additionally play this yr’s Studying & Leeds Pageant and the Neighbourhood Weekender.
Learn NME‘s chat with The Wombats about their forthcoming present at The O2 right here.